Exclusive: Northrop Grumman working with Musk's SpaceX on U.S. spy satellite system

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This is a follow on from a news article I posted last month.
For those who missed that the previous thread is below:

No One Can Hide

"No one can hide" Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say

For those who want to see the Reuters article it’s is here

Aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman is working with SpaceX, the space venture of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, on a classified spy satellite project already capturing high-resolution imagery of the Earth, according to people familiar with the program.

In March, Reuters reported that the National Reconnaissance Office, or NRO, in 2021 awarded a $1.8 billion contract to SpaceX for the classified project, a planned network of hundreds of satellites. So far, the people familiar with the project said, SpaceX has launched roughly a dozen prototypes and is already providing test imagery to the NRO, an intelligence agency that oversees development of U.S. spy satellites.

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I feel the real bothersome things are how easy it is for one person to have so much influence. The satellites are going to happen, but also its bothersome at how easy it must be to do this, now, and that one guy can have this kind of influence. I don’t like it.

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